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Bantry Marriages, Cork

Bantry, Cork, Marriage Index 1855

The following table of Bantry marriages is transcribed from Microfilm No. 4802/4 held online by the National Library of Ireland accessible through their Roman Catholic Parish Register Search page. This is an index of the names of the people who were married in this Roman Catholic parish during the year 1855. This section of the register is in English.

My list is sorted by the surname of the groom. Question marks indicate letters or words I had a problem reading.
Place names are not given in this section of the register.

Yesterday I spent a few hours going through the St. James parish records and transcribing information on any of the surnames above, that is to say if the mother or father had one of the above surnames then I noted the information. The records are in English and for the most part relative to other parish records are legible (in some places with extreme difficulty). Question marks indicate those names I had a problem with. Place-names are NOT given in these records. This is the first set of records that I have transcribed where a lot of children are given a second first name.

Spellings are exactly as I read them. (someone else might read them differently). I do have a question mark beside the surname Parle in one record but then saw that it really was Parle in another record. When we have two records for the same couple then we can read the name properly in the second record, if we had a problem with the first record. Names are not shortened.

In these records the name of the father is given in almost every case and where a child was born outside marriage the word illigitimate is placed beside the child’s name. When the parish was notified of a marriage in later years, then this information is placed with the baptismal record.

Mr. Sergeant Murphy – We understand that Mr. Sergeant Murphy’s retiring address to his constituents will appear in the course of this week. It was deferred to this period in the hope that he would have been enabled personally to communicate to them his intentions ; but very urgent professional engagements will prevent his visiting Cork for some time “Cork Reporter”
The King’s Co. Chronicle
Vol. 1 No. 3
Wednesday, Oct 6th, 1845